“Looks at chromium based vscode source code”
Well shi…
Besides being a part of the Google ecosystem, I really don’t get all the electron hate.
Slow, bloated, buggy af. Name one electron application that doesn’t struggle with state tracking over a long session, even just for simple shit like chat. The browser wasn’t supposed to be a real time application, no amount of trying to bolt it on will ever make it ok
Name one electron application that doesn’t struggle with state tracking over a long session
Slack. It’s one of the best apps I’ve ever used, and it’s built on electron. Not sure I’ve seen it struggle with “state” in general. It’s buggy sometimes but in the course of using it for like 10 years now I’ve had a 99.9% positive experience. I’d put vscode (electron) at even better status and it was made by a notoriously-shitty software company.
You must have used a different Slack than I did. It was much heavier than a simply chat app should be and it always had annoying, but rarely game breaking, issues. When Salesforce bought them the enshittification began in earnest and it quickly went further downhill. Luckily, due to said downhill turn I was able to get my company to stop using Slack altogether.
